Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] has been in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The least coverage has been in the realm of news and current affairs , where until the recent AIDS and Clause 28 reportage gay stories have been given only very occasional attention . |
| 2 | This conc has been in progress all today . |
| 3 | While this struggle has been in the making , gay men in youth work have remained silent . |
| 4 | Their crushing electoral defeat of 1983 in conjunction with the realisation that their share of the popular vote has been in steady decline since 1951 has , however , forced a reassessment . |
| 5 | This car has been in use since Easter and has been enthusiastically praised by the people , mainly volunteers , who have been staffing it . |
| 6 | this Airacomet has been in Ed Maloney 's collection for a number of years . |
| 7 | The Jamaican born bowler has been in superb form in the Cheltenham Festival … on Wednesday his bowling against Essex could swing the match . |
| 8 | This cemetery has been in existence since 1965 and is lovingly tended by regular visitors who often bring fresh flowers to mark the last resting place of a faithful friend . |
| 9 | I 'd heard it said that th the development of this site has been in the development plan for twenty years |
| 10 | Accordingly , the major contribution of economics to policy over this period has been in providing some short-term corrections to economic activity whilst being able to do little to alter the long-term trend . |
| 11 | ‘ This place has been in the same family for over a hundred years , and it was going strong before that time . |
| 12 | this business has been in erm family hands since nineteen twenty six ? |
| 13 | Next day the guns of the Tower fired a victory salute and Sir John Ligonier wrote to Cumberland on the 25th : ‘ This town has been in a blaze these two days . |
| 14 | First , we should remember that the British economy has been in relative decline compared to the rest of the world for a hundred or more years — long before there was ever any concern expressed about adversary politics . |
| 15 | The final indignities suffered by our old church has been in the last few years . |
| 16 | Since its acquisition two years ago of Consumers Gas of Canada , a company with nearly ten years experience in NGV development , British Gas has been in the forefront of NGV research — in which it invests over £1 million a year in the UK . |
| 17 | This government has been in office so long that this view of personal freedom has become written into detailed policy and into legal planning advice . |
| 18 | This inspectorate has been in being three hundred and fifty years . |
| 19 | If you ask in general , why social science has been in so selective in its use of Freud , and so one-sided in its interpretation , the answer seems to be , that since the nineteen twenties and up until very recently , Western social science has been primarily dominated by what I would call , cultural determinism , and by that I mean , a school of thought which believes that , to use a term borrowed from one of its founding fathers , Emile Durkheim , social facts have social causes . |
| 20 | Another innovation has been in the area of public participation . |
| 21 | Here we have an undoubted theoretical cause , and also the undoubted fact that this cause has been in operation on a massive scale . |
| 22 | We therefore have : 1 ) the malady if it is a malady ; at any rate it is assumed to be a malady by the proponents of incomes policy ; 2 ) a theoretical cause of the malady , which is not disputed ; 3 ) the practical demonstration that this cause has been in operation ; and 4 ) the psychological explanation why that cause is desired , fomented and sustained by Governments . |
| 23 | And so the incredible growth of government throughout this century has been in response to all kinds of problems : economic insecurity , unemployment , declining industries , poverty , natural monopolies , external costs , pollution , inflation . |
| 24 | The great increase during this century has been in the paid work of married women . |
| 25 | ‘ The British Legion has been in touch with Warrington Borough Council about putting a plaque on the cenotaph but nothing has happened yet . ’ |
| 26 | That came as no surprise to us , as we know how good the business climate in this country has been in recent years with the success of deregulation and low taxation and the attractiveness of Britain as a home of inward investment . |
| 27 | This system has been in operation for three months now so the staff are gradually becoming more settled . |
| 28 | ‘ This lodge has been in my family for three generations , ’ Matthew continued . |
| 29 | An IWC moratorium on commercial whaling has been in effect since 1986 . |
| 30 | All that we have written in this section has been in a light vein , but there is a very serious side to it . |